Taylor-Johnson directhe the critically acclaimed and BAFTA-award nominated film "Nowhere Boy" in 2009, which focused on John Lennon's relationships with his aunt and mother.
In the Oscar-nominated animated film Boy and the World, Brazilian filmmaker Alê Abreu fashions a world of stark yet vibrantly imagined contrasts.
Paul Weitz, who was one of three people nominated for "About a Boy" in the best adapted screenplay category, joked that "everyone in Hollywood, I hear, is overpaid anyway, so I don't think it will help us".
It says a lot about our views on gender and age that director Sam Taylor-Wood is perhaps better known for her relationship with Aaron Johnson, an actor some 20 years her junior, than she is for her Bafta-nominated directorial debut, Nowhere Boy.
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Appropriate Adult, The Crimson Petal And The White, This is England '88 and Channel 4's Top Boy are all nominated for top mini series.
Early on, after a fast, Oscar-nominated start as an altar boy accused of murdering a priest in "Primal Fear" (1996), Norton played cunning lowlifes in tough little pictures.
Russell Kane: Human Dressage Pleasance Courtyard Following on from last year's nominated show, this working-class Essex boy turned Middlesex English graduate unloads more of his thoughts on class and the front we don in order to get on in society.
His two most recent CD's were nominated for Grammy Awards earlier this month: "Nature Boy" (Verve) for best jazz vocal and "Believe" (Chordant) for best traditional soul gospel.
In the TV drama category, two Channel 4 productions are nominated - This is England '88 and Top Boy.
Last spring, he made his Broadway debut as an Irish rent boy in Conor McPherson's Tony-nominated "Shining City".
